Schrodinger's Baby 
Schrodinger's Baby Smoking, drinking and screwing around are the usual activities in Juliet's student house in Glasgow. And with Billy the Lad, Hippy Chris, Petruchio the Nihilist and Kerry the Drama Queen for company, she often feels like the only rational person there. Until the day she sees a dead body at the foot of their stairs. And then it disappears.
The quantum theory of Schrodinger's Cat has always appealed to Juliet's scientific mind. Polar opposites can exist simultaneously - black and white, good and evil, life and death. She is quite prepared to believe she's hallucinating at first. But then, her housemates are behaving in a more than usually weird manner; Petruchio is evasive and Kerry extra-hyper and brittle - though that could be because she's pregnant. Or is she? For Kerry, totally unreliable and ruthlessly promiscuous, embodies another of Schrodinger's opposites - truth and lies. It seems logical, scientific Juliet must question the evidence of her senses, not to mention her sanity.
In an exciting and original debut, H.R. McGregor has written a novel about lies, death, love, sex, drugs and quantum theory. ..
Pbk 07
May 98